2.5. Understanding OVAL
The Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL) is a community standard written in XML that strives to promote open and publicly available security content. It consists of a language, interpreter, and repository and is meant to standardize information between security tools.
As of this writing, version 5.4 is available, and you can find it at http://oval.mitre.org.
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